Rural Internet Access for SmartThings: Verizon vs Satellite?

[Barkis (John C)]

My deployment at a second home has a Verizon Internet connection. It’s been very solid, needing a reboot only once—perhaps a power glitch.

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Remote ST Deployment -- What are YOU Doing?

My ST hub is deployed at a second home over 1500 miles away. My primary motivation is remote climate monitoring: specifically humidity and high temperature. That lets us keep track of heating & a/c, plus intrusion detection while we are away from that location. The system was deployed when we were there in December 2015 and has worked well since then. [As a side note, here at home I’m anxious to replace my ADT Pulse system with something that looks like it was developed this century: home automation in Pulse is abysmal. I hope to have a SmartThings hub in place later this fall for this location to monitor things here at home while we are at the other place!] My remote system consists of the Smart Things v2 Hub, a switch on the front door (it is a 2nd story condo in a gated community, so …